What do they think of the Stranger influence in Seattle elections?

Please vote for Sarah Clark and tell your friends to go beyond Stranger endorsements when considering school board candidates. Our kids deserve leaders who show up prepared and informed. #SeattleSchools #VoteSarahClark

School board candidates may seem similar at first glance, but their differences become stark when you follow their work closely. The future of SPS depends on electing committed, knowledgeable leaders like Sarah Clark.

Despite presenting herself as a data scientist and declaring her candidacy 6 months ago, Smith has yet to demonstrate ANY meaningful insights into the wealth of publicly available data about Seattle Public Schools. Where's the analysis?

Smith typically fills speaking time by: restating the question, echoing what other candidates already said, or offering vague responses when speaking first. This isn't the leadership SPS needs.

Her opponent, Kathleen Smith, is simply unprepared to lead. After watching several forums over the past month, I've noticed a troubling pattern in Smith's responses.

Clark actively engages the entire school community, provides strong fiscal oversight, and supports increasing academic rigor. She's recommended by the Progressive Voters Guide and has demonstrated the leadership our district desperately needs. progressivevotersguide.com/washington/2...

As the only SPS graduate currently on the board, she brings invaluable lived experience. She knows our schools from the inside because she went through them herself.

Clark was the FIRST board director to publicly oppose the disastrous school closure plan that would have impacted every elementary school—without generating real cost savings. She stood up when it mattered most.

The kids version of that book is part of the SPS 8th grade curriculum, at least at JAMS.

You could read a lot of recommendations from various sources, and some of them might even be right. But you should trust the parents who were in the fight, who know this district inside and out, who know all the stories the media never covered...and vote for Clark, Mizrahi, Song, and LaVallee.

We need the Stranger to be good on public education. We need them to understand it, care about it, cover it, and make sensible, trusted recommendations about it.

Right now, they don't.

Vote for Clark, Mizrahi, Song, and LaVallee. And urge the Stranger to start taking SPS seriously. /end

So is Sarah.

I don't see Brandon there.

@thebethocracy.bsky.social Here's a spreadsheet that show every high school already has 30-minute lunch. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

@thebethocracy.bsky.social Here's a spreadsheet that show every high school already has 30-minute lunch. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

All the high schools ALREADY had 30 minute lunches when they had one lunch. No change. This is an obnoxious red herring.

And a WSSDA Positions Discussion. Yippee. #sarcasm